Self-loading track-cleaning car



(No Model.)

. REYNOLDS.

SELF Lamm@ TRACK CLEANING GAR.

Patmted June 23,

-Zure/(fr ter and State of Massachusetts,

. the following is aspeeification,

UNITED STATES ANDREW JACKSON REYNOLDS, O

SELF- "PATENT g. FFICE; y

F WORCESTER, amssAcr-rusn'rrs.

LOADING TRACK-CLEANING CAR.

. SPEOIFCATIONformjng part of Letters Patent No. 562,489, dated June' 23, 1.896.

Application led August 10,y 1895. Serial No. 558,941. (Nomodel.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANDREW JACKSON REY NoLDs, a citizen of the ing at WVorcester, in vthe eountyof Worceshaveinvented certain new and 'useful Improvements 4in Self-Loading Track-Cleaning Cars, of which y invention relates to self-loading trackarrangement by the claims, and which ings, in whichl motors, steam or horse power.

'Figure 1 represents a sectional plan, the section being taken horizontally and through l zo the car, just above vthe .supporting-frame.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal centralsection of my improvedgtraek-cleaner,and Fig. shows in perspective a wedge-shaped brush-separator Vand guide. Eig. 4 is an isometric view cfa detail. y In the drawings, ,isV a rectangular frame to whichvthe journal-boxes 11 and axles 12, having the flanged wheels 13, adapted to bc run upon a street-car track, are secured. Sc-

3o cured near the'ecnter of the side frames 100 i which is journaled the main 3'5 arranged 45 will be imparted to the 5`o 25, which are guide-plates 14, carrying blocks 15, in lbrush-axle 16, on which is secured the brush 17, consisting, in the present instance, ofthe sections 170, around said axle and rigidly held 1in position, as will be dcser-ibedlatcr on.

The axle orshaft 16 'carries a sprocketwheel 18, overwhich runs the driving-chain 19, passing beneath the pulley 20,'around the 4o sprocket 21 .on the wheel-axle, thence over 22, around (in the direction eti-the arrow) rotary motion n brush-axle 16 by the chain. 19, thereby obtaining all the traction-f gower of the four car-wheels for driving the lThe pulleys 20and 24 are journaled on studs are carried by the ends of a pair of levers 26, the other ends of which are pivotaliy helden the axle 12..

held in a bracket United States, residof the operating parts, as

The pulley 22 is journaled ,on a stud 27', 2S, which is secured to the under side of the planking 29. On thefree ends ofthe levers 2G are provided the pulleys 52, over which the chai-n1!) also runs. These pulleys are for the purpose of raising the chain 19 entirely free from the sprocket 18, when it should be desired or necessary to completely stop the brush rotating, while the car is running on the track.`

is the receptacle end ortank i'nto which Y the dirt is automatically thrown by the brush, being supported by the above mentioned frame 10, and consists, preferably, of sheetiron, having a dumping-bottoni and four inclosing sides or walls, the entire car being covered by planking into which trap-doors 290are provided to permit access into the car.- This ceive the main lever 31 forraising and lowering the brush. This lever'iil is secured toa shaft 32, which is journaled in suitable boxes, and which also carries at cach endan arm 33, connected by the link 34 with the block 15. It will thus be understood that a thrust ol' the 1cver31 in the direction of arrow b will result in raising the brush from the ground, in

which position it may be held by 0f the sector 35, engaging the latch 310 ot' the haud-lcver 3l'. Journalcd on studs 36, which are held in brackets 37, are the bell-crank levers 38, the arms 381 el' which are connected by means of the links er rods 39 with the levers 26, while the arms 38() are connected by the adjustable links 40 with the main lever 3l, so that when the brush is raised fronrthc ground the pulleys 20and 2-1 are also raised sufficiently to permit t ic chain 19 to risewith the sproeket-wheel 18 the tension of the chain on may be regulated at will 'by the links 40.

As the chain 19 runs lengthwise and in the middle of the car, the dirt would naturally interfere with the smooth workingol the moving` parts, and therefore iuelosc the entire driving mechanism within a case iron, rectangular in cross-sectiml and open at the bottoni only, and, as the inner ends et' adjustable of shcet\ both brush-sections run close to this case, I i provide at the bottom of the caseihc wcdgei r guides fil, bx'fstlcs grauhlaly outward and ixcz'shy ymveni; Umm from wearing ou( ghe owmedge of ihr) casfroponng.

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